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PRINTER'S NO. 35
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
9
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY GROVE, ROTHMAN, LEWIS, GLEIM, KEEFER, MOUL AND
SANKEY, JANUARY 11, 2021
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON RULES, JANUARY 11, 2021
A RESOLUTION
Adopting permanent rules for the House of Representatives,
further providing for spending limitations on general
appropriation bills, supplemental appropriation bills and
non-preferred appropriation bills.
RESOLVED, That the Permanent Rules of the House of
Representatives (2019-2020) be adopted as the Permanent Rules of
the House of Representatives for the 2021-2022 session of the
House of Representatives with the following amendments to the
heading and adding Rule 19(c):
[2019-2020] 2021-2022
GENERAL OPERATING RULES
OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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RULE 19(C)
SPENDING LIMITATIONS ON GENERAL APPROPRIATION BILLS,
SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION BILLS AND NON-PREFERRED APPROPRIATION
BILLS
This rule shall apply to all General Appropriation Bills for
each proposed fiscal year, including any amendments offered to
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or for supplemental appropriations to prior fiscal years
contained within the General Appropriation Bill and shall also
apply to any non-preferred appropriation bill for the same
fiscal year. The House of Representatives shall not vote on
final passage or concurrence bills which exceed the Taxpayers
Bill of Rights (TABOR) limits on total Commonwealth expenditures
of its constitutional operating budget. TABOR shall be
calculated by the House Appropriations Committees as total
spending by the Commonwealth that does not exceed the spending
limit in any fiscal year. The spending limit for any fiscal year
shall be equal to the spending during the immediately prior
fiscal year, adjusted by the sum of:
(1) The average of the percentage change in the annual
United States Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers
(CPI-U), as reported by the United States Department of
Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, for each of the
immediately preceding three calendar years.
(2) The average of the percentage change in the resident
population in this Commonwealth, as reported by the United
States Census Bureau for July 1 of each year, for the
immediately preceding three calendar years.
The House Appropriations Committee shall certify bills as
TABOR compliant prior to their final passage or concurrence.
Any bill which is not certified as TABOR compliant shall not be
voted on final passage or concurrence in the House of
Representatives.
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